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Mediation and Justice in India: The Promise of Section 5 of the Mediation Act, 2023

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Introduction: The Everyday Struggle for Justice In the courtroom, it is often seen the silent fatigue on the face of a woman waiting for her maintenance order, sometimes clutching her child’s hand, sometimes sitting alone with eyes fixed on the floor. For her, justice is not an abstract principle, it is the means to secure […]

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SEBI’s Progressive Pivot: Balancing Market Growth with Governance in India’s Capital Markets

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If you follow India’s capital markets, you know it’s a constant balancing act. On one side, you have the drive to grow, innovate, and attract big money. On the other, you have the absolute need to protect everyday investors and keep the system fair. The market regulator, SEBI, lives on this tightrope. And on September

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To Err Is Robot: Liability When AI Gets Taxes Wrong

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Introduction Novel accountability and liability questions, as the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a new reality, have become important issues to be addressed. One such possibility lies in the area of taxation. Numbers, Data, Filing, and Compliance are a few of the myriad terms when one talks about taxation, coincidentally, most of them collide

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Shadow CBFC: The Double-Edged Sword of OTT Self-Regulation

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From Cinemas to OTT: The Shift and the Legal Gap With technological advancement, the world has shifted from traditional television and cinema to the digital medium of OTT (over-the-top) platforms providing video-on-demand services and publishing online curated content. The increasing access to these platforms by users and their effect on society have compelled the government

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Artificial Empathy, Tangible Risks: Consent, Confidentiality and Compliance in AI-Enabled Therapy

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Introduction Recently, approximately 1.5 million regular users of the mental health chatbot ‘Woebot’ were confronted with the platform’s termination. Founder Alison Darcy cited regulatory hurdles coupled with the immense disparity between the pace at which Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and legal frameworks are evolving as reasons for Woebot’s discontinuation. While accessibility and timely responses are being

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The (Un)Holy Trinity – ‘Pirates’ of the Academia, Digital Rights Management, and Fair Use in India

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Introduction A major development in the battle between shadow libraries like sci-hub and libgen (the ‘pirates’ of academia) and academic publishers like Elsevier came when the Delhi High Court (‘DHC’), in late August 2025, ordered in Elsevier Ltd. v Alexandra Elbakyan CS(COMM) 572/2020 the blocking of sci-hub and its mirror sites citing non-compliance with its

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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION V. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN ANJUM KADARI – Part II

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The mistake committed in Anjum Kadari The SC discussed secularism in the constitutional context, and Article 28(1).[1] It cited Aruna Roy, and DAV College to lay down a distinction between ‘religious instruction’ and ‘religious education’.[2] It stated that Article 28(1) does not prohibit imparting ‘religious education’.[3] Additionally, it relied on St. Xavier’s to declare that

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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION V. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN ANJUM KADARI – Part I

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Introduction The Supreme Court (“SC”), in Anjum Kadari v. Union of India (“Anjum Kadari”), upheld the constitutionality of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004 (“Act”), overturning the decision by the Allahabad High Court (“HC”) in Anshuman Singh Rathore v. Union of India (“Anshuman Rathore”) which had found the Act violative of Article

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CONSENT, DECEIT, AND THE LAW – REIMAGINING SECTION 69 OF BNS

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INTRODUCTION Indian criminal jurisprudence has experienced a drastic change following the introduction of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) from the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on 1st July 2024. One such inclusion experienced is Section 69 of Chapter V of the BNS. Recently, a cricketer was booked under Section 69 of the BNS, charged for ‘offence against

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COMBATING ILLEGAL PHOENIXING: INDIAN LAWS AND REFORMS

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Introduction – Rising Phoenix Companies in India When a new company emerges from the ashes of a failed predecessor with the same controllers and operations, this activity is called the phoenixing of companies. The same directors and shareholders who were involved in the failed version of the company participate in the phoenix process, and they

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